Golden
couple: This photo taken days before Pistorius shot the model,
provides a moving insight into the life of the lovers. But Reeva
Steenkamp's mother claims the pair were arguing frequently in the weeks
leading up to her death and the model told her mother she was afraid of
being in his company

Recalling a phone call from Miss Steenkamp who was
travelling in a car that Pistorius was driving at speed, June Steenkamp
said: 'She was afraid, she was so afraid.'

'She phoned me and she said, ‘Mummy
I’m in the car with Oscar and he’s driving like a lunatic’. So I said
will you just give him the phone.

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'She gave the phone to Oscar straight away and I said hello. And he said "Mrs Steenkamp."

'I said, listen, if you hurt my baby
in any way I will have you wiped out. I didn’t mean murder him, I’m just
saying, that’s what I said. And I know the friend that was in the car
was a friend of Reeva and a friend of Oscar and he told me afterwards
that Oscar slowed down immediately.

Grief: The documentary shows the scene as friends and family came together to scatter Ms Steenkamp's ashes in the waters of Nelson Mandela Bay

Determined: The family scatter their the model's ashes. But they have admitted they have a need for answers surrounding their daughter's death

Remembrance: Her father said: 'Her grandfather's ashes were spread out into the sea and I think we all think that a wonderful place to spread your ashes would be the sea because it would go, be all over the place'

Torment: The family hug at the beach. In the interview, Mrs Steenkamp discusses the guilt she and her husband feel about not having 'protected' their daughter

Mrs Steenkamp added: 'A week or so later
she phoned me, we chatted about this and that, little girl things. I
said 'how's it going with Oscar?' She said that 'We've been fighting;
we've been fighting a lot'.

'She didn't elaborate about what they'd been fighting about. She said, 'We are fighting a lot.' That's what she said.

'I didn't feel alarmed about that
because men and women do fight don't they, it's part of a relationship
but this is a very early relationship to be fighting.'

Her parents spoke out about their need for answers surrounding their daughter's death.

In a television interview tonight,
June Steenkamp said 'there is only one person who knows what happened'
that night in February when Miss Steenkamp was killed.

Mrs
Steenkamp speaks of her desperation to know why the shooting took
place, and discusses the guilt she and her husband feel about not having
'protected' their daughter.

'Why? Why did he shoot her? I want to
know why he shot her. Because she must have been so afraid in the
toilet, and somebody's firing [a] gun, bullets through the door.

Premonition: A picture painted by Reeva Steenkamp, as a teenager, depicting a gunman an angel and a stairway to heaven which her parents described as a 'premonition'

Artist: A section of a picture painted by Reeva Steenkamp, as a teenager, depicting an angel

Past: A gunman can be seen in the canvas that the model put together in her youth

Grief: June Steenkamp with her daughter as a baby

'And how terrified and already one
bullet had hit her so she must have been in severe pain also, and I just
feel why couldn't I have warned her, or known something about this
person - that they could be capable of doing something like that.

'Because he shot her till she was dead. Shot her till she was dead and I want to know what happened. Why?

'We feel bad that we couldn't protect
her. Her whole life we protected her. From the day she was born we
protected her, but this we could not protect her from. Why couldn't we
protect her from this?

'How did she end up with a person like
this? Who could shoot her? I want to know. We don't know what happened.
There is only one person who knows what happened,' she told the Channel
5 programme Why Did Oscar Pistorius Kill Our Daughter?.

Among them is a picture painted by Miss Steenkamp as a teenager - a painting depicting a gunman, an angel and a
stairway to heaven which her parents described as a 'premonition'.

Mrs Steenkamp said: 'Reeva painted
these pictures when she was 14, they've been in the house for a long
time now, but we never really realised what they were about.

'Here is a man standing in a field,
next to a tree, and he is holding a gun. And then on the other side...
is what could be Reeva wearing angel wings, and here is the ladder going
up to heaven.

'And we never really, really understood the painting but it almost seems like a premonition.

'And it is, if you look at it, it's a premonition of what happened to her. And she's petrified. She's afraid.

She's showing horror and she's afraid. She's terrified. Her hands are over her mouth, and she's terrified.

'If you look at it now it's clear as anything that this is a premonition.'

The documentary shows the emotional
scene as friends and family came together to scatter Steenkamp's ashes
in the waters of Nelson Mandela Bay.

Her father said: 'Her grandfather’s
ashes were spread out into the sea and I think we all think that a
wonderful place to spread your ashes would be the sea because it would
go, be all over the place.'

Investigation: Ballistics expert, JC de Klerk, fires at a door, simulating Pistorius' height, had he not put on his prosthetic legs in the documentary

Her mother added, 'She loved
swimming, she loved the beach. I think that she would like that. I think
that she would be happy with her ashes going there.

'Saying goodbye to Reeva is the end.
Setting her ashes free, the doves will fly and she will fly. That will
be her resting place.'

Reeva’s school friend Gwyn Guscott
also said that she was aware of an argument that took between the couple
that Reeva took two days too cool down from.

She said 'I know of one argument that
she had with Oscar. I don’t know who started the argument but I do
recall her saying to me that, "Gwyn, you know how I am, I’m not a person
that likes arguments so I walk away. So I left and I took two days to
cool off and just think about what had happened and then I tried to
patch things up".'

Pistorius is expected to stand trial later this year.

The 'Blade Runner' is currently on
bail after a judge changed his conditions in March, allowing him to
travel abroad providing he hand over his travel plans.

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGE:The bathroom at Oscar Pistorius's home in Pretoria which shows bullet holes in the door and pools of blood on the floor and the bloody stains on the toilet seat

Today his uncle told CNNthat Pistorius is heartbroken and surrounded himself with photos of his dead girlfriend.

Arnold Pistorius said his nephew, who has been living with him for the past three months, has stayed locked in the house.

He said he has grown a beard to avoid being recognised and does not go out in public.

He said the family 'fully stand behind' him as he prepares for his
next court appearance, and said they were 'shaken' by the pictures of
the star's bloody bathroom that emerged last week.

He said: 'We believe in him, love him and will support him every step of the way in what lies ahead.

'We were shaken by the graphic images, leaked into the public domain this week, of the accident scene at Oscar's house.

'It has always been our plea that the legal process be allowed its run its course with integrity.
'The leaking of evidential material into the public domain, before the court case, does not advance this process.

'We continue to have great faith in the South African legal justice
system and believe that Oscar's account of what happened on that
terrible night in February will be borne out by the evidence that the
defence team will lead in court.'

Fears: Runner Oscar Pistorius denies murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp claiming he shot her believing she was an intruder

Criticism: Former South African detective Hilton Botha came under fire for walking over the crime scene without foot protection

The sprinter's agent Van Zyl spoke
about the moment he found out about the shooting. He said he received a
phone call from Pistorius' phone from the estate manager's daughter

'I
initially thought it was Oscar that has been shot. She said, 'No, no,
no, no. Reeva's been shot.' She explained then to me basically just
briefly what happened. And yeah, total shock obviously. So I had to jump
in the car and rush through to Pretoria,' he explained.

Van Zyl said he then called Ampie Louw, the sprinter's coach, and told him to get to Pistorius's house.

'I could hear him crying in the garage, and Reeva was at the entrance. So that was terrible for me,' Louw told CNN.

The detective who first led the case claimed the shocking photos meant the athlete could go free.

Former
detective Hilton Botha, who was dropped from the investigation after it
emerged he is facing two counts of attempted murder in a separate
incident, says the revelation could scupper the prosecution case.

He believes they were taken by a
corrupt policeman within 48 hours of the fatal incident at Pistorius's
house in Pretoria, South Africa, on Valentine's Day.

Botha
told the Sunday People: 'It looks like the pictures have been taken one
or two days after the scene because on the Saturday (following the
shooting) I took it down and sent it away for forensics.

'This is why I took the door down. I knew that anyone could come in and take pictures and both our cases could be b******d.'

Model: Reeva Steenkamp was shot to death in the bathroom at Pistorius's home

Botha said he had heard money was being offered for pictures of the scene.

He
believes they were taken by a mobile phone camera and shown to the
Pistorious defence team before official crime scene pictures were
revealed to lawyers.

In the gruesome images, pools of blood cover the toilet and bathroom floor, with police tape marking the holes where bullets flew
through the bathroom door, which is missing a panel.

It is thought that the low position of
the bullet holes will be used by Pistorius's defence team to argue that
he was not wearing his prosthetic legs at the time of the shooting, so
could not have planned the murder.

The pictures, obtained by Sky News, also
show trails of blood leading from the bathroom and down the stairs of
the house, as the paralympian carried Miss Steenkamp's body and called
for help.

The Sky footage also shows bloodied
footprints - thought to have been caused by investigating officer Hilton
Botha walking into the house without protective covers on his shoes.

Botha was forced to step down
when it emerged he faced seven charges of attempted murder for a 2011
case in which he and two other officers fired on a vehicle in an attempt
to make it stop.

He
told the Sunday People that when he first began investigating the
killing he knew of two potential key witnesses who have since been
scared off talking to police.

He said: 'They changed their minds. It sounds to me like someone spoke to them and they don't want to get involved.'

Botha has now quit the South African Police Service to start his own security company.

Sources told Sky News that other
officers in the case are being investigated for the disappearance of a
watch belonging to Pistorius.